Cognitive dissonance definition Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, or by justifying or rationalizing them.[2] It is one of the most influential and extensively studied theories in social psychology. Read the full definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
God complex From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A god complex is a non-clinical term generally used to describe an individual who consistently believes they can accomplish more than is humanly possible or that their opinion is automatically above those they may disagree with.[1] The individual may believe he or she is above the rules of society and should be given special consideration. The term "god complex" does not appear in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).[2]
Introductory Salon Activity Quotation
Humphry Davy: in 1802 appointed professor of chemistry at Royal Institution (aged 23); important contributions to electro-chemistry; In 1816 Mary Shelley read Humphrey Davy's A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802). The following is an excerpt from this work:
Science has ... bestowed upon [man] powers which may be called almost creative; which have enabled him to change and modify the beings surrounding him, and by his experiments to interrogate nature with power, not simply as a scholar, passive and seeking only to understand her operations, but rather as a master, active with his own instruments ... who would not be ambitious of becoming acquainted with the most profound secrets of nature; of ascertaining her hidden operations; and of exhibiting to man that system of knowledge which relates so intimately to their own physical and moral constitution? Collected Works of Humphry Davy, volume 2, ed. John Davy (London, 1839).
The inscription from Aeschylus, on the granite wall behind, reads: "Prometheus, teacher in every art, brought the fire that hath proved to mortals a means to mighty ends."
JOURNAL ENTRIES
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PODCASTSSALON RESOURCESINSTRUCTIONS FOR FINAL FRANKENSTEIN ESSAY
FRANKENSTEIN TEXTS
Frankenstein Or The Modern PrometheusSearch-able full text online edition
http://texts.crossref-it.info/text/frankenstein
Audio Reading of Frankenstein
http://librivox.org/frankenstein-or-modern-prometheus-by-mary-w-shelley/
POETRY
Speeches For Dr. Frankenstein"Speeches For Dr. Frankenstein" by Margaret Atwood
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Coleridge
http://www.online-literature.com/coleridge/646/
ARTICLES
Was ‘Frankenstein’ Really About Childbirth? by Ruth Franklinhttps://newrepublic.com/article/101435/mary-shelley-frankenstein-godwin-bodleian-oxford
The Enduring Scariness of the Mad Scientist by Carri Rom
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-enduring-scariness-of-the-mad-scientist/382064/
Mad Scientists: Fringe Benefits
Sometimes madness inspires genius. Four examples of crazy genius. By Ferris Jabr. Psychology Today. published on September 01, 2008 - last reviewed on October 27, 2008
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200809/mad-scientists-fringe-benefits
"It's Alive"; Frankenstein's Monster and Modern Science by Tina Pamintuan
Humanities, September/October 2002, Volume 23/Number 5
Cloning Fact Sheet published by the Human Genome Project
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml
Cloning For Cures, Cutting Through the Confusion
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3076915/ns/health-special_reports/
Primer on Ethics and Human Cloning
ActionBioScience.org
http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/mcgee.html
Should We Clone Neanderthals?
The scientific, legal, and ethical obstacles by Zach Zorich, Archaeology (March/April 2010)
Response to "Should We Clone Neanderthals"
http://www.biopoliticaltimes.org/article.php?id=5075
Article: The Myth of Prometheus and the Liver
TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
Cognitive dissonance definition
Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, or by justifying or rationalizing them.[2] It is one of the most influential and extensively studied theories in social psychology. Read the full definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
God complex
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A god complex is a non-clinical term generally used to describe an individual who consistently believes they can accomplish more than is humanly possible or that their opinion is automatically above those they may disagree with.[1] The individual may believe he or she is above the rules of society and should be given special consideration. The term "god complex" does not appear in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).[2]
Introductory Salon Activity Quotation
Humphry Davy: in 1802 appointed professor of chemistry at Royal Institution (aged 23); important contributions to electro-chemistry; In 1816 Mary Shelley read Humphrey Davy's A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802). The following is an excerpt from this work:
Science has ... bestowed upon [man] powers which may be called almost creative; which have enabled him to change and modify the beings surrounding him, and by his experiments to interrogate nature with power, not simply as a scholar, passive and seeking only to understand her operations, but rather as a master, active with his own instruments ... who would not be ambitious of becoming acquainted with the most profound secrets of nature; of ascertaining her hidden operations; and of exhibiting to man that system of knowledge which relates so intimately to their own physical and moral constitution? Collected Works of Humphry Davy, volume 2, ed. John Davy (London, 1839).
Information about the Promethean myth
Theoi Project, a site exploring Greek mythology and the gods in classical literature and art
http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanPrometheus.html
ART
The Raft of the MedusaBy Theodore Gericault (1819)
Visit the
Louvre Museum web siteto learn more about this work.
View an interactive image of this work on the
National Gallery web page.
by Paul Manship